Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to Russia, has taken to repeating Russian talking points about the war. He argues that Putin has no desire to swallow up all of Ukraine, that Russia has no further territorial ambitions, and that it would therefore be a mistake to put European troops in Ukraine to provide a guarantee against Russian cease-fire violations. What conclusions should we draw from this?
I argued in a previous post that we will know if Trump wants to completely change sides and ally himself with Russia against the rest of the EU if he intervenes to prevent the Euros from protecting Ukraine. Witkoff’s statements are evidence that this is, in fact, his intent. Either that, or Witkoff is a complete moron, which seems unlikely.